Wrap up the 20th century; Fred Astaire is gone.
Richard Pilbrow's lighting can turn a coin into an asteroid and an idea into an apparition.
Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.
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